Daniel Quinn grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and studied at St. Louis University, the University of Vienna, and Loyola University of Chicago. He worked in Chicago-area publishing for twenty years before beginning work on the book for which he is best known, Ishmael. In 1991, this book was chosen from among some 2,500 international entrants in the Turner Tomorrow competition to win the half-million dollar prize for a novel offering “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” It has subsequently sold more than a million copies in English, is available in some thirty languages, and has been used in high schools and colleges worldwide in courses as varied as philosophy, geography, ecology, archaeology, history, biology, zoology, anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology. Subsequent works include Providence, The Story of B, My Ishmael: A Sequel, Beyond Civilization, After Dachau, The Holy, and most recently At Woomeroo, a collection of short stories. He currently lives with his wife in Houston.
发表于2024-11-08
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2011年的第一天,看完了这本书。Ishmael 死了。 这本书对于我来说是一场神奇的旅行。从我的好朋友SEV介绍我看它,到求GARY帮我在美国买,到最终从他手里拿到这本书,再到把它一气呵成看完——又一次会心的笑了。毫无争议,本年度读到最好的书。 这本书用苏格拉底式的对话方式...
评分This book is what I got from my first year seminar in College. Surprisingly lots of terms we discussed in class can be greatly applied in this book. Get rid of traditional narrative, the book reversed the world, extracting people out of the human world by ...
评分2011年的第一天,看完了这本书。Ishmael 死了。 这本书对于我来说是一场神奇的旅行。从我的好朋友SEV介绍我看它,到求GARY帮我在美国买,到最终从他手里拿到这本书,再到把它一气呵成看完——又一次会心的笑了。毫无争议,本年度读到最好的书。 这本书用苏格拉底式的对话方式...
评分This book is what I got from my first year seminar in College. Surprisingly lots of terms we discussed in class can be greatly applied in this book. Get rid of traditional narrative, the book reversed the world, extracting people out of the human world by ...
评分图书标签: 进化论 社会 反思 自然 哲学
One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following among readers and critics alike.
TEACHER SEEKS PUPIL.
Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.
It was just a three-line ad in the personals section, but it launched the adventure of a lifetime.
So begins an utterly unique and captivating novel. In Ishmael, which received the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship for the best work of fiction offering positive solutions to global problems, Daniel Quinn parses humanity’s origins and its relationship with nature, in search of an answer to this challenging question: How can we save the world from ourselves?
Praise for Ishmael
“As suspenseful, inventive, and socially urgent as any fiction or nonfiction you are likely to read this or any other year.”—The Austin Chronicle
“Before we’re halfway through this slim book . . . we’re in [Daniel Quinn’s] grip, we want Ishmael to teach us how to save the planet from ourselves. We want to change our lives.”—The Washington Post
“Arthur Koestler, in an essay in which he wondered whether mankind would go the way of the dinosaur, formulated what he called the Dinosaur’s Prayer: ‘Lord, a little more time!’ Ishmael does its bit to answer that prayer and may just possibly have bought us all a little more time.”—Los Angeles Times
it is trying to tell something about philosophy... well... okay... whatever
评分It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.
评分It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.
评分It's the price of enacting a story that casts mankind as the enemy of the world.
评分it is trying to tell something about philosophy... well... okay... whatever
Ishmael 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书